Australia Day - 2017
I read recently that Aust. Day fireworks will be banned in
Fremantle W.A. over indigineous cultural sensitivities. For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession. Some people say Australia Day should be called Federation Day, being 1st January, 1901 when the British Parliament passed legislation for 6 colonies to govern in their own right.
What do members of YLC think about this? We can still have a whop-up party, tone down the fireworks, to save money, still grant citizenship ceremonies.? Maybe this will be accepted by those that say , "We were Invaded?'
Independence Day of the United States, also referred to as the Fourth of July or July Fourth in the U.S., is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 240 years ago in 1776 on July 4 by the Continental Congress. It declared that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer part of the British Empire.[1]
Any fool or at least most fools would see the difference between to two days. One is setting up a penal colony and the other is taking nationhood and self rule away from an imperial power.